Enterococcus faecalis

PTCC No: 
1778
Other collection No. :: 
ATCC 29212, DSM 2570, CIP 103214, LMG 8222, WDCM 00087
Category: 
Quality control strains
Reference strains
Culture condition: 
37°C, Aerobic
Information: 
<- ATCC <- Micro-media System Inc. <- Kaiser-Permanente, strain Portland. Isolated from urine. Quality control strain. Used for food testing, evaluation of Mueller-Hinton agar, media testing, susceptibility disc testing and dilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Quality control strain for API, bioMerieux VITEK, IDS, Micro-Media, MicroScan, and Sensititre products. Quality control strain for EUCAST (test for minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics).
Literature: 

Control strain (Methodology for the Serum Bactericidal test: Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M21-A, Methods for Determining Bactericidal Activity of Antimicrobial Agents; Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M26-A). Media testing (Quality Control for Commercially Prepared Microbiological Culture Media; Approved Standard - 3rd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M22-A3, Water microbiology. Method2: Culture media, diluents and reagents. Sydney, NSW, Australia:Standards Australia;Standards Australia AS 4276.2-1995, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs--Guidelines on preparation and production of culture media-- Part 2: Practical guidelines on performance testing of culture media.. Geneva (Switzerland):International Organization for Standardization/ANSI;ISO ISO 11133-2:2003, Medical microbiology-- Culture media -- Part 3: Dip slides for microbiological urine analysis. Berlin, Germany:Deutsches Institut fur Normung;DIN DIN 58942-3: 2003, 2003, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Horizontal method for the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes --- Part 1: Detection method, Annex B [BS 5763-18:1997]. London, UK:British Standards Institution;British Standard BS EN ISO 11290-1:1997, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Horizontal method for the enumeration of beta-glucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli -- Part 3: Most probable number techniques using 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-beta-D-glucuronide. London, UK:British Standards Institution;British Standard DD ISO/TS 16649-3:2005, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Guidelines on preparation and production of culture media --- Part 2: Practical guidelines on performance testing of culture media - Annex B: Recommended test microorganisms for commonly used culture media. London, UK:British Standards Institution;British Standard DD CEN ISO/TS 11133:2003), Quality control of transport medium (Quality Control of Microbiological Transport Systems; Approved Standard. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M40-A). Susceptibility disc testing (Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard - 9th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M2-A9, Methods for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M42-A, Methods for Broth Dilution Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M49-A). Susceptibility testing (Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria that Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard - 7th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M7-A8, Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk and Dilution Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria Isolated from Animals; Approved Standard - 2nd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M31-A3, Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Sixteenth Informational Supplement. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M100-S20, 2007, Evaluation of Lots of Dehydrated Mueller-Hinton Broth for Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing; Proposed Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CLSI M32-P, Medical microbiology; methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents: agar diffusion test. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung; DIN 58940-3: 1989, Medical microbiology -- Methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents-- Part 7: Determination of the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) with the aid of microdilution. Berlin, Germany:Deutsches Institut fur Normung;DIN DIN 58940-7: 1994, 1994, Medical microbiology -- Susceptibility testing of microbial pathogens to antimicrobial agents -- Part 81: Microdilution; Special requirements for testing of non-fastidious bacteria. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung; DIN 58940-81: 2002, Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems --- Susceptibility testing of infectious agents and evaluation of performance of antimicrobial susceptibility test devices --- Part 1: Reference method for testing the in vitro activity of antimicrobial agents against rapidly growing aerobic bacteria involved in infectious diseases. London, UK:British Standards Institution;British Standard BS EN ISO 20776-1:2006)

Supplied as: 
Freeze-dried
Risk group: 
2